• Health Care Aide
  • Location
    654 29 St, Fort Macleod, AB| Alberta
  • Job ID
    18266
  • Views
    823
  • Date Posted
    13-12-2022
  • Expiry Date
    11-06-2023
  • Type of Job
    Full Time
  • Salary
    CAD $$23.00/hour
  • Min. Experience
    7 months to less than 1 year
  • Min. Education
    Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
Job Details
Extendicare Fort Macleod is looking for a full-time Health Care Aide at 654 29 St, Fort Macleod, AB T0L 0Z0 Canada. There are 5 positions available.

Hours of work are 30-40 hours/week (overtime pay after 44 hours). Pay is $23.00/hour. Successful candidates must speak English and have completed high school. Minimum work experience is 6 months hands on experience.

Please send resumes via email to resumes@maxwellmanagementgroup.com
Job Description
Main duties are as follows but not limited to:

• Answer call signals; supply and empty bed pans; bathe, dress and groom patients; serve meal trays, feed or assist in feeding of patients and assist patients with menu selection; weigh, lift, turn, and position patients; shave patients prior to operations; supervise patients' exercise routines, set up and provide leisure activities for patients, accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
• Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse; report or record fluid intake and output; observe or monitor patients' status and document patient care on charts; administer first aid in emergency situations; collect specimens such as urine, faeces or sputum; administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas and perform other procedures as directed by nursing and hospital staff
• Transport patients by wheelchair or stretcher for treatment or surgery
• Carry messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments
• Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
• Maintain inventory of supplies
• May perform maintenance tasks such as assisting with the set-up and maintenance of traction equipment, cleaning or sterilizing equipment, maintaining and repairing equipment, and assembling, setting-up and operating job-related equipment
• May transport patients between care facilities.